Attributes of a good head coach that a good coordinator doesn't necessairly have.

[RatherBeBrewing]

Pete was (is) very organized, has vision of what he wants and how he wants it, built a strong foundation for the program, made questionable assistant hires (perhaps to keep control), and was too resistant / stubborn to adjust / change. His separator was (is?) that there is no question that he cares about the kids, and they feed off of that. It was enough to overcome his deficiencies, for a while.

This is good. Organization and vision are super important.

I’d bet ~90-95% of high achievers are extremely organized and the outliers are so charismatic/intelligent/sociopathic that they can make it work. Structure seems to be a very common thread for successful coaches.

Vision isn’t limited to powerpoint presentations along with synergy and other shit words companies love to tout. When I was younger I thought that was all made up by the company bigwigs to make it seem like they were doing something other than just expensing nice lunches and corporate retreats. It gets buy-in, which you need for results whether you have a team of teen boys or a doomsday cult. Chip, Peterman, USC Pete, Harbaugh and previous Shaw, Aw Shucks - all those guys had a vision.

As much as people mocked Cristobal’s West Coast SEC shit and physicality pipe dream he went into Columbus and pushed around their 5-star DL with an OL consisting of JuCos, walk-ons, and fat kids with bad haircuts from the Portland suburbs. I’m not sure what Jimmy’s vision was. If I had to guess it would be a combination of caricatures of successful coaches he knew of, but only a superficial version of them. He thought that if you sounded and acted like you knew what you were doing it would be good enough.